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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

This Past Weekend Delivered Good Ratings For CTV

Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8 on CTV Two

It was another bull’s eye for ARROW as 1.3 million viewers tuned in to its special CTV premiere Sunday night. Following its historic CTV Two debut Wednesday as the network’s most-watched series premiere on record (1.1 million viewers), ARROW delivered another million-plus audience to finish #4 for the night, behind only THE AMAZING RACE (#1, 2.7 million viewers), ONCE UPON A TIME (#2, 1.7 million viewers), and THE MENTALIST (#3, 1.6 million viewers). THE AMAZING RACE and ONCE UPON A TIME both delivered new season high audiences as CTV won every hour of primetime Sunday night from 7-11 p.m. with total viewers,A18-49, and A25-54.
Meanwhile, CTV’s new BIG BANG NIGHT ON CTV programming block went “top shelf” Saturday night, averaging 1.2 million viewers from 8-10 p.m. The four, back-to-back episodes programmed around the theme, “First Contact,” were the Top 4 most-watched programs of the night. The block delivered a series-high 730,000 viewers for THE NEIGHBORS, which followed at 10 p.m. BIG BANG NIGHT ON CTV followed a new series overnight high for an original episode of the series last Thursday night with 4.3 million viewers on CTV. Also on Saturday, an all-new episode of W5 drew 879,000 viewers at 7 p.m.

On Friday night, CTV also won every hour of primetime from 8-11 p.m. with BLUE BLOODS (#1, 1.7 million), CSI: NY (#2, 1.4 million viewers), and GRIMM (#3, 1.1 million viewers).